Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy i... See more
James Vincent • AI Is Killing the Old Web, and the New Web Struggles to Be Born
‘Technology’, she wrote, ‘is the active human interface with the material world.’
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
If a simplistic description of AI is computers learning to be more human, then the persistence of Hawk Tuah for six months and counting is the inverse: Humans learning how it feels to be a computer—forced to remember, unable to move on, endlessly consuming and regurgitating our past output in slightly different formats—a video here, a podcast there... See more
Drew Austin • The Meme Fossil Record
A successful community requires thoughtful participation, hard work, and a healthy appreciation for the absurd.